L1380.3.01

  • : Sawyer 1380, MS 2, Boundary 3: Manchester, John Rylands Library, English 880
  • : Wolverhampton
  • : Staffordshire
  • : Bilston and Wednesfield
  • : 2

This boð ðe mere to bilsetnetun · And to wodensfeld ·

Erst of hinde broce into ðeo dic bitwonen ettingeshale . . . lsetnetun1 · onlang ða dic forte cume ðer ðeo dic went estward · And of ðam dice forð on ðone ðorne2 ðar ða ðreo ymere goð to somne · ha . . . . . tunes3 <7> ettingeshale · <7> bilsetnetun ymere · <7> of ðam ðone4 in ðone lece mere · <7> of ða mere in ðone ford ðer beorgides stanes strete lið ofer · <7> of ða ford in ðo dic ðe lich betwean5 wodnesfeldes ymere <7> hamtunes · <7> norðward forð efter ðere dic ðet on þi6 piates ðorn · <7> of ðe ðorne efter ðere dic on penwic ðer wodnesfeildes7 ymere · <7> hamtunes · <7> biscopesgoð8 to somne · <7> ford onlang penwies9 in byri10 broc · <7> of ða broce ðat on ðone ealrescagen <7> efter ealrescagā on ðat sic · <7> efter siche on ða strete · <7> forð effter11 ðer aldestrete on ðane harenstan · <7> of ða stane on ða suinesete12 · <7> of ðare suinsete onlang stret ðat on ðam dic [....................]rnesford13 · <7> of ða ford onlang portstrete in ðat white sic · <7> efter sice on ðone broc in beadg[....]14 burne · <7> of ða burne into [..............................]15 meidenesford onlang ðes broces ðat into ðare dic ðar hit er of ðam broce eode ·

 

1
The manuscript has 3 dots spaced at approximately one per letter-width
2
Erased
3
5 dots in the manuscript
4
Sic
5
This looks like 'a' written over a second 'e'
6
Crossed out, although note that the scribe never otherwise writes 'þ'; all corrections are in the main hand
7
But written with the tongue extending clearly through both the 's' and 'f'
8
Sic; there's a line-break between 'biscopes' and 'goð', but a clear hyphen at the end of the line
9
'ie' altered from 'ee' or perhaps 'ei'
10
'y' written over 'e'
11
Sic
12
'e' crossed out
13
Gap left here; no sign of erasure. This reads 'on lang dic þet on Kirnesford' in the 'Monasticon Anglicanum' transcription
14
Left blank; '-iþe' in 'Monasticon Anglicanum'
15
Left blank; 'lande-broce on lang þes broces on' in 'Monasticon Anglicanum'